Llana of Gathol
Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)
Year: 1946
Publisher: Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc
Place: Tarzana
Description:
317 pages with frontispiece and plates. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's pebble blue cloth with red lettering to spine and cover, tinted red head end pages in original pictorial wrappers. First edition.
Llana of Gathol is a collection of four science fantasy stories by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, which were originally published in Amazing Stories in 1941. The first collected edition of Llana of Gathol was published in 1948 with a new foreword. It is the penultimate book in the Barsoom series and the last to be published during Burroughs's lifetime.
The stories in this collection revolve around John Carter's granddaughter Llana of Gathol, who plays the "damsel in distress" role played by Dejah Thoris and Thuvia in earlier entries of the Barsoom series. In search of solitude, John Carter flies to the deserted city of Horz. By one of those coincidences which are common in Burroughs's books, he discovers his own granddaughter, Llana of Gathol, who is being held captive. The subsequent attempts to get Llana safely back home bring Carter, Llana and Pan Dan Chee, a young man they pick up along the way, through a series of adventures. They meet an ancient, mad hypnotist who has preserved people for nearly a million years by the power of hypnotism. They find a valley occupied by Black Men who imprison them. They travel to the land of Pankor where soldiers are frozen and kept in reserve until needed for a war. Finally they reach the land of Invak where the inhabitants have mastered the art of invisibility.
Condition:
Some offsetting darkening to end papers and pastedowns. Jacket with foxing to fold-over flap edges, light edge wear with rubbed spine ends and crease at front head edge else very good in like jacket.
